I continue to be confused about whether/when you're allowed to draw causal arrows from mathematical to physical facts.
@MemberOfSpecies I would have thought you can’t ever take a mathematical thing to be a cause… what would be an example?
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@Meaningness "The fact that 5*5=25 and the fact that the room is 5x5 meters, together, cause the room to be 25 square meters." -
@MemberOfSpecies Oh… weird… “Cause” seems an exceptionally vague and problematic notion, but fwiw on the whole I’d say that isn’t causal. - 12 more replies
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